00165: 165. αἰών [poet.: apocop. acc. αἰῶ ] [properly αἰϝών, aevum, v. αἰεί）] 0. a period of existence: 1. one's life-time, life, Hom. and attic Poets.
2. an age, generation, Aesch.; ὁ μέλλων αἰών posterity, Dem.
3. a long space of time, an age, ἀπ᾽ αἰῶνος of old, for ages, Hes., NTest.; τὸν δι᾽ αἰῶνος χρόνον for ever, Aesch.; ἅπαντα τὸν αἰ. Lycurg.
4. a definite space of time, an era, epoch, age, period, ὁ αἰὼν οὗτος this present world, opp. to ὁ μέλλων, NTest.:—hence its usage in pl., εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας for ever, id=NTest.